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Corona Devo 3312

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In the first Chapter of the Biblical Book of Matthew , the lineage of Jesus is listed.  Fourteen generations--each with specific someone's,  who were connected to other someone's, who were eventually connected to Jesus Christ. It's interesting.  It's amazing.  It's a lineage of laypeople that somehow laid the human-groundwork and path to the Son of God, Jesus Christ, our Savior. As we read Matthew Chapter 1 , there is name after name, and most of them, we won't know.   But a few of them we do.   Salmon the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed the father of Jesse,  ( 6) and Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon...  ~Matthew 1:5-6 Boaz was a good man.  We can find him in the Book of Ruth , and he was good to Ruth .  She was a widow without money and he let her glean his fields.  He told the men of his estate to leave her alone and to allow her...
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Corona Devo 3311

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I like walnuts.  I've been known to snack on whole ones, and I delight to have the crunch of a walnut in bakery such as banana bread or apple cake.  And I have a few Christmas cookie recipes that cannot be completed without walnuts. (Shout out to Gramma T's coconut-orange cookies, and the snowball cookie dough that is made of finely chopped walnuts, confectionary sugar, butter and flour...and then you roll them in (more) powdered sugar when they are hot(!) from the oven!  Those cookies need walnuts.  Yes, walnuts are good. ~~~ We've gone through some skinny times in our budget and our family, when we didn't have the money for olive oil (it's expensive!), and so, vegetable does the job.  But what a treat it is to enjoy the rich taste and flavor of olive oil!  Sometimes we dip bread in olive oil with spices, other times I will cook with it, and I absolutely love olive oil drizzled over a salad or tomatoes with some salt.  Yes, olive oil is good. ~~~...
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